You must realize that I live an isolated life. I haven't been to a store in years. I don't have a TV. I haven't read a real ink and paper newspaper in ages. So, it was a real eye opener to be gifted with newspapers while I was on hiatus. It's been so long since I was a direct consumer that I was a little wide eyed. My, how things have changed.
I had to check out the toy ads to see what was new. Our family has always been big on board games, Lego and Playmobil and oh, how we should have bought stock in Hot Wheels. Anyway, there I was perusing the toy ads, when my heart almost stopped. A Barbie doll with a miniscule video cam in her tummy.
I'm not the mother of 14 for nothin'. I know how toys are played with. All sorts of unseemly scenarios played out for me. I just knew that some little 6 year old girl would get one for Christmas and be delighted. However, I also knew that her older brother and his friends would find that doll in a heartbeat and do what little boys always do--get creative. It would be relatively harmless but Mom and Dad would not be pleased. No, they do not want to see the 11 year old brother's best friend's bare bottom or the peeing contest out in the snow. They really are NOT charmed with the clandestine video of the 6 year old and her best friend in the bath together. Those were my thoughts. Parents, just say no.
Then I came upon this:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/12/06/Video-Girl-Barbie-draws-FBIs-eye/UPI-55071291686800/
'Video Girl' Barbie draws FBI's eye
"Mattel's Video Girl Barbie innocently got caught up in the FBI's efforts to nail pedophiles, the toymaker and the G-men say.
It all started Nov. 30 when the FBI field office in Sacramento issued a "Cyber Crime Alert," meant only for the eyes of other law enforcement agencies, noting the 11 1/2-inch-tall doll contains a video camera that can tape up to 30 minutes of action and could be "a possible child *advertiser censored* production method...."
more at link
Thank God the FBI saw the danger. But what's Mattel going to do about it? I'm sure the TV ads are already running and little girls are already pleading for one. What a mess.
This is exactly the sort of thing that I can imagine Earl Bradley in Lewes ordering a whole case of. Right up his alley. Yikes!!
I had to check out the toy ads to see what was new. Our family has always been big on board games, Lego and Playmobil and oh, how we should have bought stock in Hot Wheels. Anyway, there I was perusing the toy ads, when my heart almost stopped. A Barbie doll with a miniscule video cam in her tummy.
I'm not the mother of 14 for nothin'. I know how toys are played with. All sorts of unseemly scenarios played out for me. I just knew that some little 6 year old girl would get one for Christmas and be delighted. However, I also knew that her older brother and his friends would find that doll in a heartbeat and do what little boys always do--get creative. It would be relatively harmless but Mom and Dad would not be pleased. No, they do not want to see the 11 year old brother's best friend's bare bottom or the peeing contest out in the snow. They really are NOT charmed with the clandestine video of the 6 year old and her best friend in the bath together. Those were my thoughts. Parents, just say no.
Then I came upon this:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/12/06/Video-Girl-Barbie-draws-FBIs-eye/UPI-55071291686800/
'Video Girl' Barbie draws FBI's eye
"Mattel's Video Girl Barbie innocently got caught up in the FBI's efforts to nail pedophiles, the toymaker and the G-men say.
It all started Nov. 30 when the FBI field office in Sacramento issued a "Cyber Crime Alert," meant only for the eyes of other law enforcement agencies, noting the 11 1/2-inch-tall doll contains a video camera that can tape up to 30 minutes of action and could be "a possible child *advertiser censored* production method...."
more at link
Thank God the FBI saw the danger. But what's Mattel going to do about it? I'm sure the TV ads are already running and little girls are already pleading for one. What a mess.
This is exactly the sort of thing that I can imagine Earl Bradley in Lewes ordering a whole case of. Right up his alley. Yikes!!